Constructing programs or processes



Paper Title: Constructing programs or processes
Authored By:S.V. Reeves and D. Streader
Number:09/2005
Publisher:Department of Computer Science, The University of Waikato
Publication Date:2005
Pages:1-13
Abstract:We define interacting sequential programs, motivated originally by constructivist considerations. We use them to investigate notions of implementation and determinism. Process algebras do not define what can be implemented and what cannot. As we demonstrate it is problematic to do so on the set of all processes. Guided by constructivist notions we have constructed interacting sequential programs which we claim can be readily implemented and are a subset of processes.
Keywords:Process algebra, determinism, cause, refinement, constructive


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